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Delicious & Detours in Japan

Edit The Japan News 31 Jul 2016
Speech ... Add some twists to your next cookout ... Tempted to visit places not found in guidebooks? Looking for sumo and kabuki trivia? This page, published every Monday, explores the many aspects of Japan that appeal to visitors, from side streets in historic towns to the latest tourist spots ... (PDF) ... + - ... ....

Review: Exhibit by gay artists focuses on humanity, vulnerability

Edit Albuquerque Journal 31 Jul 2016
There are transformative people in our midst who create far more than they consume ... It sports 13,000 square feet of floor space ... Advertisement ... 28 ... Haozous’ “Modern Man,” “Restroom of the Damned” and “Kabuki Baby” depict people in masks ... In “Kabuki Baby” the tastefully depicted nude woman also has black tape over the eye holes of her mask preventing her from even seeing who she is ... 28 ... ....

De Blasio’s ‘affordable housing’ Kabuki show

Edit New York Post 31 Jul 2016
Mayor de Blasio is boasting of progress on “affordable” — that is, subsidized — housing. Yet the city’s overall housing picture is headed off a cliff. “The biggest and most progressive affordable-housing plan in the nation is on-budget and ahead of schedule,” he bragged last week. Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen went further, calling the program “massive, game-changing stuff.” ... But the numbers mislead....

SDCC’16: David Mack talks travels, Tyler Durden, and what Kabuki looks like 20 years later.

Edit The Beat 29 Jul 2016
As a kid, reading comics in the 90’s was mostly about appreciating pretty pictures drawn by the likes of guys like Jim Lee. As an adult, reading comics became about an engaging story written by the likes of guys like Brian Michael Bendis. Today’s audience, juvenile or adult, has the advantage of creators who are […] ... ....

Masaki Ryu plays warlord in her final Takarazuka show

Edit The Japan News 29 Jul 2016
By Kana Yokota / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterMasaki Ryu will play the powerful feudal lord Oda Nobunaga in her last production with the Takarazuka Revue Company. The grand-scale rock musical “NOBUNAGA — Geten no Yume —” (Nobunaga ... 5 to Sept ... Ryu said she always wanted to play Nobunaga ... Slide 1 of 1 ... “The importance of these productions can equal that of kabuki performances announcing an actor’s succession to his predecessor’s name ... 4 ... + - ... ....

Neputa floats captivate festival-goers

Edit The Japan News 27 Jul 2016
On the nights of Aug ... Goshogawara is located near the center of the Tsugaru Peninsula ... The new statue represents Izumono Okuni, a female performer from the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 16th century who was the originator of kabuki ... Saito’s latest work is his fifth ... Slide 1 of 1. The Yomiuri Shimbun. Tadahiro Saito colors a statue of Izumono Okuni, the originator of kabuki, at Tachineputa no Yakata in Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture ... Memo ... ....

End of an era for ANU Japanese academic Shun Ikeda

Edit Topix 24 Jul 2016
Cuts to the ANU School of Culture, History and Language will spell the end of senior Japanese lecturer Shun Ikeda's 33-year career at the institution. But before the director of the ANU Za Kabuki Club, known to his students as Ikeda-sensei, is farewelled he will lead a Kabuki performance tour to Japan from September 5-17 ... ....

EDITORIAL: Thank KISS, rebels with a cause

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 23 Jul 2016
The artists' dark costumes and heavy kabuki makeup remain a unique spectacle. Their hit records are popular and relevant today ... Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette. ....

EDITORIAL: KISS shows that they are rebels with a cause

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 23 Jul 2016
The artists' dark costumes and heavy kabuki makeup remain a unique spectacle. Their hit records are popular and relevant today ... Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette. ....

Sigma Beauty eyes market expansion, partners with Zalora

Edit The Jakarta Post 21 Jul 2016
Among the cosmetics company's products to be offered on Zalora are the Sigmax Kabuki Kit, the Perfect Blend Kit, the Essential Kit, the Best of Sigma Brush Set and the Sigma Spa Brush Cleaning Mat, with prices ......

IN CLEVELAND Barry: I missed the naked women but found dancing Republicans

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 21 Jul 2016
CLEVELAND I totally missed the naked women protest. It turns out they held it before I got here ... She was a fast machine. She kept her motor clean … ... “Wow!” I said ... I have been to every national political convention since 1984, and I have seen many street protests, and I am here to tell you that, despite the fervent desire of the protesters to be edgy, they are by far the most traditional actors in the kabuki theater of American politics ... ....

KABUKI ABC (33) / Ichikawa Chusha: Late starter passing his father’s legacy on to his son

Edit The Japan News 20 Jul 2016
Starting in one’s late teens is usually too late to catch up with actors who are born into kabuki families and taught since childhood ... Ichikawa Eno II (formerly Ichikawa Ennosuke III), known for his enterprising spirit, picked young actors for important roles even if they were not born into kabuki families ... When he became a kabuki actor, he had already been a famed actor under his birth name, Teruyuki Kagawa....

Column: 'Ghostbusters' is a divisive film, for silly reasons

Edit The Miami Herald 20 Jul 2016
The "Ghostbusters" reboot is the most divisive mainstream comedy in years, for pretty stupid reasons ... It wasn't much of a trailer, as many men and women have conceded. Too much noise, not enough funny ... That money is one of its problems ... Some of it's overkill; her reaction shots and takes are bigger than Kabuki, sometimes, and often you watch her because she's simply doing so much more than her co-stars ... ....
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